Narrative Medicine in the 21st Century: A Multidisciplinary Conference

Find out why medical students and practitioners are turning to the humanities (especially narrative studies of literature, film, and comix), and see how the arts and humanities have often honed in on stories of patients, doctors, and other health care practitioners. This series of screenings and events illuminates an exciting new “narrative medicine” movement based on the premise that narrative competence enhances medical competence even as medical experiences reshape narrative forms. The series complements a two-day multidisciplinary conference.

This gathering promises to help shape the future course of the still-emerging field of narrative medicine, with perspectives from leaders of the movement including Rita Charon, Arthur Frank, and Elizabeth Leake. For more information, visit frit.osu.edu/narrative-medicine.

Sponsored by Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center, College of Medicine, Student Health Services, Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Classics, Department of English and its Project Narrative, Department of French and Italian, Humanities Institute, Digital Storytelling Program (a cooperative effort of the Digital Union and University Libraries), Film Studies Program, Popular Culture Studies, Disability Studies (a program of DISCO, the Disability & Identity Studies Cooperative), and Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Support provided by an Ohio State University Arts and Humanities Research Enhancement Grant.

Admission

Free to all audiences

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SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS
FOR FILM/VIDEORohauer Collection Foundation

PREFERRED AIRLINESAmerican Airlines/American Eagle

GENERAL SUPPORT FOR
THE WEXNER CENTERGreater Columbus Arts Council
Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Ohio Arts Council